//Copyright (C) 2014+ Marco (Phoenix) Calautti.

//This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
//it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
//the Free Software Foundation, version 2.0.

//This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
//but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
//MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
//GNU General Public License 2.0 for more details.

//A copy of the GPL 2.0 should have been included with the program.
//If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

//Official repository and contact information can be found at
//http://github.com/marco-calautti/Rainbow

using System.IO;

namespace Rainbow.ImgLib.Encoding
{

    /// <summary>
    /// This interface represents an object that can convert its internal image data into the given stream, following the encoding implemented by this object.
    /// </summary>
    public interface ImageEncoder
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Encodes the image associated to this ImageEncoder.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="s"></param>
        byte[] Encode();
    }
}